<div dir="ltr">Hi good people. I am a beginner user of Ubuntu for about 7 years. (can follow online guides to troubleshoot but not somebody who would remember any commands by heart or have expert understanding of OS) People who do not want to hear my Windows rant shall goto subroutine ‘X’. I have a 6 years old ThinkPad tablet convertible running on Ubuntu because windows suck (my wife's main portable). Previous to that i had a HP pavilion which i originally switched to Ubuntu because i couldn’t live with windows anymore. I do have a windows rig for all windows apps which is more of a home entertainment system than used for any computing needs. Last year i coughed up a thousand quid for a nice machine, thinkpad helix i7, 8gig ram, the lot. Since then, (from windows 8 to now 10 pro) i have spent more than 90% of my time troubleshooting and less time in productive tasks. I was this close " " to throw it outside my 3rd floor window then go downstairs to repeatedly jump on it. The PC lagged like as if it was a 486 and me running windows 10 on it. I spent 1 week to understand that 1 driver file of my sound card was somehow loading in startup causing all sorts of ‘high blood pressures’ issues for me. I’ve had enough. I only need windows to run MS. Office which I can whineHQ; and Rosetta stone, and on 2nd thoughts maybe run a Win 7 VM to do both on Ubuntu. Subroutine X:I like nice hardware something like the new MacBook air or better yet Chromebook Pixel 2 (2015). Is there a (to naively) clean way to install Ubuntu on it (after a full wipe of Chrome OS?)? I have seen all sorts of methods which run simultaneously with ChromOS but I fear if I go down that route, the machine is 1000 euros+ then there will be Chrome OS simultaneous with Ubuntu then there will be a VM running some productivity windows apps on it. It’s all bit too risky don’t you guys think? OR if there is another nice machine out there with possibility of clean Ubuntu install plz recommend. Because otherwise I am left with windows on MS surface which is ridiculously expensive at 2000 euros or a alienware 15 R2. Plz help cuz it hurts now L </div>